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“Three papers of mystical tendency which recently appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly have been published in one volume entitled ‘The war
and the spirit of youth,’ by Maurice Barrès, Anne C. E. Allinson and
Sir Francis Younghusband. The papers are by a Frenchman, an Englishman
and an American, and reveal in all three cases a spiritual
temperament. In the first one, ‘Young soldiers of France,’ M. Barrès
gives excerpts from letters written by certain young French soldiers
at the front. ... The two other papers are philosophical discussions
of the spiritual motives behind the present war.”—Springf’d Republican

=A L A Bkl= 14:51 N ‘17

“M. Barrès tactfully allows the letters of young French soldiers to
reveal of themselves the permanent spiritual values which, so it
seemed to these boys, made their sacrifices just. ... It is only on
reading the conventional and weak deistic apologia of Sir Francis
Younghusband that the question of the value of such waste of human
happiness for mechanical political ends rises again with unescapable
directness.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 150w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 O 12 ‘17 150w

=WARD, SIR ADOLPHUS WILLIAM.= Germany, 1815-1890. (Cambridge historical ser.) 3v v 1 *$3 Putnam 943.07 (16-17397)

=v 1= 1815-1852.

“Dr Ward has long been known as foremost among English scholars in the
study of modern German history, and he reckons among the chief
pleasures of life ‘the promotion of a better understanding between two
nations now estranged from each other for many a long day.’ ... He is
dealing with the Germany that emerged from the rough handling of
Napoleon, after the Holy Roman empire had finally passed off the
stage, and the German confederation had begun its uneasy
existence. ... This period was, as Dr Ward says, a half-century of
struggle and humiliation, and the first reflection that follows on the
study of action that failed, and reaction that failed equally, is that
Bismarck must have been a very great man to build up out of this chaos
the powerful nation we know to our cost to-day.” (Sat R) Volume 1,
covering the period from 1815 to 1852, will be followed by a second
volume carrying the history to 1890.

“No one would question Dr Ward’s high qualifications, for few living
English writers have given evidence of more versatile and exact
scholarship than the Master of Peterhouse. This volume on Germany from
1815 to 1852 is, however, a grievous disappointment. It is one of the
most jejune handbooks ever produced by English writers, who furnish no
mean competition in such compilations. The style is prolix and
involved, loaded with details and unimportant names, broken by
parentheses and totally unrelieved by emphasis. Inclusion by mere
enumeration replaces discrimination and selection. ... The
bibliography will be useful but it is not above criticism.” G. S. Ford

– + =Am Hist R= 22:706 Ap ‘17 400w

“Does not replace other histories but is authoritative, suggestive,
and impartial.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:262 Mr ‘17

“The author has an exceptional command of foreign sources, as his
bibliography shows, and studies with care the thought and policy and
the various movements which influenced the making of modern Germany.”

+ =Ath= p291 Je ‘16 50w

+ =Dial= 62:317 Ap 5 ‘17 150w

“Sir Adolphus Ward’s knowledge of his subject is enormous and his
equity and discrimination are no less remarkable than his knowledge.
All personages of all parties receive a full measure of
indulgence. ... In the fullness of his own knowledge of German affairs
the author has perhaps forgotten how meagre is the knowledge of most
educated Englishmen.” F. C. M.

+ =Eng Hist R= 21:672 O ‘16 350w

“Few English writers are so well qualified to speak on German
political affairs as the author of the present volume, and the
immediate result is a book which displays profound learning and a
thorough mastery of the subject. ... But it is a book for students
only and primarily, even for students a book of reference. ... The
book concludes with an excellent bibliography, a good index, and a map
of the German confederation.”

+ =Nation= 104:165 F 8 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:129 F ‘17

“This book is at least a clear proof that the English academic mind
can remain calm and impartial in the midst of war. ... His book is of
very great value as a compressed and exact record; it repays careful
study, and a second reading gives greater pleasure than the first.”

+ =Sat R= 123:112 F 3 ‘17 900w

“No such compact mass of information about the German states between
1815 and 1852 as is contained in this book has previously appeared in
English. The book is not for the most part easy reading. But as a book
for consultation and reference as to facts we know of no other like
this. ... Sir Adolphus Ward writes on this question [Denmark]—which we
take only as an illustration—as on others, in what may be called a
pre-war spirit. That is no defect in an historian, for we might have
been more inclined to suspect the accuracy of his presentment of facts
if he ever showed a trace of passion or partisanship. But in this
volume there is absolutely none.”

+ =Spec= 117:46 Jl 8 ‘16 1550w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Je 1 ‘16 40w

“We rise from reading the book with the impression that the author has
been somewhat overwhelmed by the very wealth of his learning. To tell
truth, this book would have gained in force and actuality, even if a
certain impartiality had been sacrificed, had it been written frankly
from an English point of view as an honest criticism from outside of
the tendencies underlying the development of the German idea.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p302 Je 29 ‘16 1850w

=WARD, CHARLES HENSHAW.= What is English? *$1 Scott 808 17-4013

The author calls this “a book of strategy for English teachers.” As a
teacher of English in a boys’ preparatory school, he is concerned with
the problems of secondary education, and he takes the stand that the
first demand on English teachers is that they teach the essentials of
good English, putting accuracy in detail before attempts at literary
grace. He commends the methods described in Brown’s “How the French
boy learns to write.” Among the chapters are: What English is;
Intensive spelling; What grammar is all about; Teaching grammar; What
is a comma? Present usage in pointing; Themes; Reading.

“To punctuation he gives almost as much space as to the other two
subjects combined. Surely this is disproportionate. The book
represents a reaction, in the main wholesome, against the notion that
the whole duty of a high-school English teacher is to cultivate
‘insight into beauty’ or to teach his pupils to write clever short
stories. But the reaction (in theory, at least) may easily go too
far.”

+ — =Nation= 106:122 Ja 31 ‘18 300w

=Pratt= p18 O ‘17 10w

“In style and method Mr Ward’s book is itself an excellent
object-lesson in effective composition.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:109 Jl ‘17 150w

=WARD, GILBERT OAKLEY.= Practical use of books and libraries; an elementary manual. (Useful reference ser.) 3d ed rev and enl il $1.25 Boston bk. 020 17-178

“A carefully revised, enlarged, reset, and in part rewritten edition.
Some of the more important changes from the second edition are as
follows: the magazine list has been revised and rearranged; certain
sections on debate work, well covered elsewhere, have been replaced by
detailed directions for making a working bibliography; the chapter on
book buying has been prefaced by a description of the principal
sources of information about books, especially reviews.”—A L A Bkl

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:366 My ‘17

=St Louis= 15:167 Je ‘17

“A book which all high-school students should be familiar with.”

+ =School R= 25:304 Ap ‘17 10w

=WARD, HARRY FREDERICK.= Labor movement from the standpoint of religious values. *$1.25 (3c) Sturgis & Walton 331.8 17-17728

The author is professor of social service at the Boston university
school of theology. The lectures were originally given to students in
the university; they were repeated in Ford Hall, Boston, in 1915, as
noonday lectures to “men of all classes and creeds, of all ranks,
standards and opinions. ... The text is from a verbatim stenographic
report, with no changes whatever.” (Preface) The questions and answers
of the forum period following each lecture are included. “Contents:
Trade unions; Socialism; Syndicalism; The demand for leisure; The
demand for income; Violence and its causes; Labor and the law;
Democracy and industry.” (N Y Br Lib News)

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:104 Jl ‘17

“An unusual feature of the book is the reproduction of a testimonial
adopted in the form of a resolution by the I.W.W. propaganda league of
Boston in appreciation of the sympathetic expositions of the cause of
labor by Professor Ward. ... A wide knowledge of the various phases of
the working class movement is exhibited throughout the lectures.”
Alexander Trachtenberg

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 24 ‘17 950w

=WARD, HERBERT.= Mr Poilu; notes and sketches with the fighting French. il *$2.50 (10c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-26483)

Mr Ward, author of “My life with Stanley’s rear-guard,” is an English
sculptor who, after living in New Zealand and Australia, being in turn
sailor, miner, gymnast in a traveling circus and stock-rider, saw five
years of active service in Africa, part of the time as a member of
Stanley’s expedition to relieve Emin Pasha in the Sudan. In 1900, Mr
Ward settled in Paris, but returned to England in 1914 and attached
himself as lieutenant to the famous No. 3 convoy of the British
ambulance committee, operating under the French army. The book is a
series of notes, rather than a connected narrative, giving first-hand
impressions of the French common soldier at the front, and of the
French army system—a system that is, says the author, “peculiarly
adapted to the French temperament; it is in harmony with their
intelligence, their love of liberty, and their high state of
civilization.” One chapter is devoted to “The women of France.” The
forty-eight illustrations in color and black and white are from the
author’s drawings of the “poilu” as seen at the front under all sorts
of conditions.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 80w

“During the last year or two Mr Ward has become well known to
Americans by his lectures in this country, from ocean to ocean, in aid
of French soldiers and their families. ... Although written with the
greatest modesty and with a certain effect of casualness, the book
presents a brilliant analysis of spiritual qualities, of temperament,
of racial endowment.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w

+ =Outlook= 116:489 Jl 25 ‘17 150w

+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 170w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 250w

“Certainly claims attention for the artistic merit of its
illustrations.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p599 D 14 ‘16 130w

=WARD, LESTER FRANK.=[2] Glimpses of the cosmos. 8v v 5 *$2.50 Putnam 301

In a series of eight volumes, of which this is the fifth, the
publishers are bringing out the minor writings of Lester Ward, with
biographical and historical notes. The material is arranged
chronologically, so that the mental development of the author may be
followed. The present volume covers the years 1893-1897.

“The work is interesting, not only as reproducing numerous papers upon
important subjects, but also as a record of the author’s mental
evolution.”

+ =Ath= p461 S ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 40w

“The value of all these minor writings of Prof. Ward is by no means
established by their publication, but the principal objection to this
collection of his entire works is that they are not arranged according
to subjects. As a ‘mental autobiography’ the volumes will be of
interest to very few.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 170w

=WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD).= ‘Missing.’ il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-28797

A war novel not concerned with the soldier at the front except as seen
thru the tears and anguish of the woman at home. The central figure is
Nelly Sarratt, a war bride, thru whose brief honeymoon the reader
comes to know her as a very beautiful, childlike, appealing little
soul who has given every ounce of her love to her adored soldier
husband. He goes back to the front. Later comes the message that he
has been reported wounded and missing. Weeks of illness leave the wife
limp and unresisting in the hands of capable friends. A sister who
counts everything about war a nuisance, and who cannot forgive Nelly
for marrying a poor man, watches with silent approval the solicitous
thoughtfulness of a young baronet for Nelly’s welfare. When the moment
comes for the sister to hasten to a French hospital to identify a man
who had lost his memory but who might be George Sarratt she denies the
identity believing that it will spoil Nelly’s prospects. Memory
returns; the man asks for his wife; Nelly hastens to his bedside and
comforts him in his last moments. Her sorrow turns her frailties to
strength. She becomes a nurse, “uplifted strengthened—to endure and
serve.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18

“It is a pedestrian performance, by no means on the level of
‘Marcella’ and ‘Helbeck of Bannisdale.’”

— =Ath= p597 N ‘17 100w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:337 N ‘17 140w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:599 Ja ‘18 550w

“If the war must enter fiction, it can scarcely enter it more wisely
and more significantly than in Mrs Ward’s latest novel.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 3 ‘17 1550w

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 60w

“‘Missing’ might be a contribution to the contemporary literature
about woman, as vital in its way as ‘A woman of genius,’ but, like
most of Mrs Ward’s work, it lacks reality. It is a cleverly staged,
well-managed drama of the Pinero type.”

– + =Dial= 64:117 Ja 31 ‘18 150w

=Nation= 106:95 Ja 24 ‘18 300w

“The most interesting parts of the book are the occasional glimpses it
gives of England and the English at war, glimpses few and very brief.
We wish there were more of them, and could easily have dispensed with
some of the very numerous descriptions of Lake-country scenery,
graceful though many of them are, for the sake of seeing more of the
war conditions.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:433 O 28 ‘17 1000w

“In construction the story has little subtlety. The only approach to a
plot arises from the extraordinary treachery of Nelly’s sister, an
original but not very lifelike figure. The characterisation generally
is not on Mrs Ward’s usual level. The civilian representative of Major
Dobbin has more airs and graces than our dear old friend, but he takes
no hold on our affections. The soldiers are all good men and
true—there are no George Osbornes among them—but our view of them is
wholly superficial. The aristocratic V.A.D. is more in the author’s
earlier manner, and sufficiently convincing as regards her insolence
and frivolity, and even her occasional lapses into efficiency; but we
are altogether sceptical concerning her underlying goodness of heart.”

— =Sat R= 124:290 O 13 ‘17 450w

=Spec= 119:528 N 10 ‘17 60w

“It is a poignant little tragedy, portrayed with fidelity, restraint
and verisimilitude.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 10 ‘18 350w

“A novelist so well equipped and so experienced as Mrs Humphry Ward
could not produce an uninteresting or manifestly faulty tale; but
throughout our reading of this new book we felt that this was not a
story which Mrs Humphry Ward wanted to tell for its own sake. It has
all the sterling qualities of her fiction, but less of the breadth of
life, less of the obvious personal interest in the characters and the
subject, than some of her novels. ... It is all reasonable, true, and
just; a sound story well composed and logically, if lengthily, worked
out.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 4 ‘17 500w

=WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD).= Towards the goal. *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 940.91 17-21840

Mrs Ward’s art as a novelist has been put to the great service of
telling to the world how the British are steadily pushing towards the
goal of that just, necessary and final victory which shall make the
sacrifice of the best and highest in the empire not in vain. In a
series of letters addressed to Theodore Roosevelt, written between
March 24 and June 1, 1917, she tells what needed to be made graphic of
the work of the navy and of the army in France. Mr Roosevelt
contributes a preface in which he says “Mrs Ward’s volume is of high
value as a study of contemporary history. It is of at least as high
value as an inspiration to constructive patriotism.” The prophecy in
her first letter that “the logic of facts will sweep the American and
British nations together in some sort of intimate union” is fulfilled
before the close of the book which is, in some sense, a sequel to
“England’s effort.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

“Gives a valuable first-hand account of certain organized German
atrocities, such as the brutal treatment of Senlis, about which too
little is generally known.”

+ =Ath= p476 S ‘17 100w

“As in the case of its predecessor, ‘Towards the goal’ represents a
very happy combination. It is authoritative. Mrs Ward has seen the
operations in France and she has talked with those who know most of
the situation both in England and in France. Moreover, she possesses
the imagination and the art which make her readers see with her—an
element which gives the book the worth which could never have been
gained by the facts in the hands of one less skilled. All through the
latter part of the book the strong joy of England is made clear over
the entry of America into the war.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 1300w

“Distinguished for intensity of feeling, and an appreciation of the
meaning of the war to all the Allies.”

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w

“As a work of contemporary history, Mrs Ward’s book must win a lasting
reputation.”

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 150w

“From one who knows the German mind as Mrs Ward has known it, the
stinging condemnation of its materialism, its ruthless ambition, and
its deliberate inhumanity in war, which she more than once voices,
comes with exceptional force; and her repeated insistence that nothing
less than ‘restitution, reparation, and guarantees’ will insure a
lasting peace is clearly no literary repetition of a political
formula, but a conviction from which her personal observations offer
her no escape.”

+ =Nation= 105:542 N 15 ‘17 800w

“Mrs Ward is interested always in the achievements and the influence
of personality, and this gives color and life to her pages. ... It is
a wonderful story, tragic, inspiring, deeply moving, and Mrs Ward
tells it well, though with the utmost brevity.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:301 Ag 19 ‘17 1000w

=Pittsburgh= 22:684 O ‘17 30w

“Mrs Ward tells us that the letters are written not for Englishmen but
as ‘a general account for Americans.’ From this point of view the
volume deserves nothing but praise.”

+ =Sat R= 124:132 Ag 18 ‘17 400w

“As in the case of ‘England’s effort,’ she was given every facility by
the authorities for obtaining the material for her book.”

+ =Spec= 119:358 O 6 ‘17 730w

“The letters are, in the first place, descriptive of certain phases of
the war as Mrs Ward has observed them. The second purpose of Mrs
Ward’s book seems to be political. She writes to urge upon Americans
the desirability of making the demand for ‘reparation, restitution,
guarantees’ the guiding purpose of their representatives in the peace
negotiations. While the letters contain but a small amount of fresh
information, they are pleasantly, even persuasively written. Mrs Ward
is to be specially thanked for her commendation of Lord Haldane.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p363 Ag 2 ‘17 1000w

=WARE, MARY S.= Old world through old eyes. il *$2 (1½c) Putnam 915 17-15435

Mrs Ware, “seventy years young,” started off alone in 1912 for a three
years’ tour of the Orient. She visited “Japan and the Philippines,
China, Burmah and Siam, Cambodia, India, and the East Indian islands,”
was a guest at four native courts and had interviews with various
other native rulers. She tells us that she has “given little space to
descriptions of natural scenery or of national monuments,” because
what most interested her in her travels “were the results obtained in
colonization and in the government of backward peoples by the
Americans, English, French and Dutch.” (Preface) A few pages towards
the end of the book give a brief chronicle of Mrs Ware’s life in Paris
in 1915. These letters of travel, written to her family, have been
collected and printed for her grandchildren. Any money realized by her
from the book will be sent, while the war lasts, to French hospitals,
and after the war, to French soldiers blinded in the war.

“Its interest is indeed compelling.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 13 ‘17 1050w

“She is evidently a woman of strong character and trained intellect as
well as large heart, and her book has more of character and
individuality than would be found in most collections of family
letters from abroad.”

+ =Dial= 63:595 D 6 ‘17 250w

“The author says: ‘I have not followed the usual course of travel
narrative.’ ... It is this departure from ‘the usual course,’ this
fresh curiosity, this sight of a developing world as a wide-eyed old
lady sees it, that is largely responsible for the marked charm and
interest of the book. ... Mrs Ware’s little investigation of American
rule in the Philippines is most interesting reading. ‘The Americans,’
she says, ‘have a clean government over here.’ It was there that she
met General Pershing and had many good talks with him about the
islands.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 800w

=WARREN, MRS CONSTANCE M. (WILLIAMS).= Phœnix. il *$1.40 (2c) Houghton 17-8464

Boston society, with its strict traditions giving way to the
encroachments of newer manners and customs, forms the background of
this story. Janet, the heroine, is a young girl, sweet and unspoiled
in spite of great wealth. She has given her heart to Donald Craig, a
boyish sweetheart, and she is waiting in simple happiness for the
declaration of his love. But Donald is poor and he goes away to make
his fortune leaving the words unsaid. Hurt and rebuffed, Janet marries
Osborne Slade, a man older than herself, but a most desirable person
by all Boston standards. The story has to do with her marriage. It is
a tepid success for a time, but a crisis arises and at this time Janet
meets Donald again. The story closes with the European war in progress
and Janet serving as a nurse in France.

“Fidelity to the varied aspects of the present-day life in Boston is
to be found in ‘The phœnix.’ Sometimes, however, mere truth palls, and
there are pages of the book where the author quite fails to hold our
interest, through her very evident desire to make her picture a
faithful one. ... What the author has done supremely well is to create
the atmosphere of over-organized hustle and underlying boredom in
which so many well-to-do women exist.” D. L. M.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 17 ‘17 450w

“With the possible exception of one or two of the minor characters,
the people in the book are not well drawn, and the novel as a whole is
somewhat dull.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 250w

“The final chapters have a bit of the cinema about them. But ‘The
phoenix’ is sincere and alive, while the characters, with the possible
exception of Donald Craig, are drawn with faithfulness. It is a good
specimen of new Boston fiction.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 470w

=WASHBURN, MARGARET FLOY.= Movement and mental imagery; outlines of a motor theory of the complexer mental processes. il *$1.75 Houghton 150 16-15871

This work by a professor of psychology in Vassar college is published
as one of the Vassar semi-centennial series. “The author deals with
types of association among movements; movement and consciousness; the
spontaneous recurrence of movements; the memory after-image and
perseveration; the connecting links in movement-systems; associative
dispositions; imageless processes; and cognate matters.” (Ath)

=Ath= p33 Ja ‘17 40w

=Boston Transcript= p8 O 4 ‘16 350w

“While the appeal of the book is distinctly to the technical student
of psychology, the wider bearings of the conception are well
considered.”

+ =Dial= 61:318 O 19 ‘16 300w

=Ind= 90:297 My 12 ‘17 140w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:156 O ‘16

=Pratt= p20 O ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:6 Ja ‘17 9w

=WASHBURN, STANLEY.= Russian advance. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 940.91 17-2489

This is Mr Washburn’s third volume of field notes from the Russian
front. It covers the period from June 5 to September 1, 1916, and is a
reprint in part of articles that have appeared in the London Times. He
has confined his account of Russian operations to that part of the
campaign that came under his own observation on the southwestern
front. The book closes with a summary of the Russian offensive to the
first of September.

=A L A Bkl= 13:309 Ap ‘17

=Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 60w

“A strict censorship has made it impossible for the writer to give
names and details and explanations that would have added much to the
interest of his narrative. But it is full enough for the general
reader, and it also has the merit of handling topics not already
written to death by dozens of other war-chroniclers.” P. F. Bicknell

+ =Dial= 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 110w

“His book is not long; but he has had the ability to choose for his
setting forth those salient things that really present the picture of
the army, the country, the strategy, the people, the occurrences great
and small of Russia’s part in the war; we have a real glimpse of the
Russian advance as a whole, and an actual sense of what, in Russia and
in Austria, lies behind it.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:57 F 18 ‘17 300w

“Unlike ‘Victory in defeat,’ wherein the retreat of 1915 is given with
considerable technical detail, the present book inclines to the
colorful and the descriptive, with particular emphasis on the
master-mind that directed the movement.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 150w

“It is a very cheering report.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Ap 5 ‘17 1000w

=WASTE, HENRIE=, pseud. Philosophy; an autobiographical fragment. *$1.25 Longmans 17-5129

“Philosophy, fair maid of ever youthful face and wisely old heart, is
the fairy godmother in this unique tale of adventuring minds and
hearts. Its scene is laid in Freiburg, where the American girl who
tells the story in the first person, is pursuing the study of
philosophy mainly with the intent to find out all she can about how we
know and why we wish to know and whence come and how are governed the
motives that control action and the laws that control thought. ... But
she is just as human a girl as if she were not so entranced with this
high purpose and so absorbed in the mental occupations that will
advance her on the way. She is a true daughter of Eve, who was the
mother of all philosophy, and, like Eve, her mind is one large
question mark before all the manifestations of life. ... She has not
long to wait until the signal becomes insistent and the quest
absorbing in the matter of the personality of one of her
fellow-students. The story of the quick developing of love between
them and their mutual attraction for each other makes an idyllic
romance wherein philosophy stands ever at their elbows.”—N Y Times

=Boston Transcript= p7 My 16 ‘17 150w

“There is about this book a quality of freshness and vividness which
will hold the general reader’s interest even through the passages of
philosophical analysis and research.”

+ =Dial= 62:148 F 22 ‘17 190w

“Rather dull and prosy narrative.”

— =Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 40w

=Int J Ethics= 27:407 Ap ‘17 100w

“The author evidently knows her philosophical books, and shows no
little acumen in weaving the theorems of the schools into the
conversations of a philandering young man and a maid. By all odds the
best things in the book are the satirical yet kindly sketches of the
other students of the seminar who are not so soulful as Taddeo.”

+ =Nation= 105:180 Ag 16 ‘17 200w

“A vivid crescendo of experience, alive with the glamor of
personality. You read it again as soon as you can, with the same
quickened beating of the heart and far more understanding.” R. B.

+ + =New Repub= 10:384 Ap 28 ‘17 450w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:47 Mr ‘17

“Presumably a first book, it shows the anonymous author to be
possessed of unusual powers and of striking promise. Her ability to
suffuse all life with the light of abstract thought, made glowing and
vital, sets her in a class apart, while her power to express tensity
of emotion and make it fine and beautiful is a gift ever welcome among
writers of fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:21 Ja 21 ‘17 660w

“A rather skillful book and also rather fascinating. Henrie can react
with girlish enthusiasm upon Freiburg with its quaint formal
professors, its dumpy landladies, and its uncompromising salespeople
who are insulted if you ask for something they do not have: and she
can love Taddeo, an olive skinned cosmopolitan.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 230w

=WATSON, FREDERICK.= Story of the Highland regiments. il *$2 Macmillan 355 (Eng ed 16-6535)

“Mr Watson has collected into this volume a story of the campaigns in
which the Highland regiments have taken part, and it covers the period
from the beginning of the ‘Black Watch’ in 1725, to the spring of
1915. ... The volume is illustrated with full page pictures in colors,
and the scenes depicted are the historic and striking incidents in the
history of the various regiments. Apt quotations from the poets
introduce the chapters and heighten the effect of the stories.”—Boston
Transcript

“Every chapter is intensely interesting, those describing the service
of the Highlanders in America especially so, for where the accounts
deal with the conflict against the United States the story is told
with expressions of appreciation of the cause of the American
colonists.” J. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 400w

+ =Spec= 116:195 F 5 ‘16 180w

=WATSON, SIR WILLIAM.= Man who saw, and other poems arising out of the war. *$1 Harper 821 17-15992

“The contents of this volume include little that can be described as
poems of action. The author desires his book to be considered as an
intermittent commentary on the main developments, and some of the
collateral phenomena, of the war. ... Nineteen of the poems are
sonnets. ... Although many of these poems have already appeared in
various publications, ... not a few have since undergone a process for
which ‘revision’ would be a feeble word.” (Preface)

“Among the finest of the sonnets are those entitled ‘Tranquil
liberty,’ ‘Commemorative,’ and ‘You at the helm.’”

+ =Ath= p310 Je ‘17 200w

“Nothing like this poetry has come from an English poet since
Wordsworth lived and Swinburne died.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ‘17 1400w

=Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 50w

=Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

“I think Sir William Watson has served England by proving that in
patriotic and martial vigor the most fastidious of her artists can vie
with the most daredevil of her rhymesters.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Nation= 106:91 Ja 24 ‘18 250w

+ =N Y Times= 22:241 Je 24 ‘17 500w

“The energy of these poems will keep them alive long after many more
tuneful echoes of the conflict are forgotten.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 130w

+ =Spec= 118:613 Je 2 ‘17 620w

“The subject matter of the sonnets is rather too pedestrian to justify
the use of that metier, and the other poems incline to tickle the
intellect rather than to stir the emotions. These verses of Mr Watson
seem to exhibit the temper of an Englishman so outraged by
contemporary events that he neglects to listen to the muse—a poet so
overwhelmed that he forgets to sing.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 230w

“Sir William Watson’s aim is clear, and he has achieved it. His book
is, as he desired it to be, ‘an intermittent commentary on the main
developments, and some of the collateral phenomena, of the war.’ But
future times will turn to it when they want to know what Britain’s
case was, what Britain felt and thought in the war, not when they need
the consolation and exaltation of great poetry. ‘Crossing the
Rubicon,’ ‘The battle of the Bight,’ ‘The charge of the 9th Lancers,’
and other poems that readers may remember to have seen in periodicals
(though on most of them Sir William Watson has worked anew since they
were first published) fire the blood. The strange Coleridgian poem,
‘Desolation’ is violently exciting.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p354 Jl 26 ‘17 1000w

=WATSON, SIR WILLIAM.= Retrogression, and other poems. *$1.25 Lane 821 17-2699

This book of poems is a companion volume to the author’s prose work
“Pencraft.” It is a defense of the stately and beautiful traditions of
English literature, and a lament over their passing:

“For few and fewer do they grow, Who know, or ever care to know, The
great things greatly said and sung In this heroic English tongue.”

The book is made up of two parts: Poems of the literary life; Poems
personal and general. All the poems appear here in print for the first
time with the exception of six reprinted from English periodicals.

“Little in this collection touches Mr Watson’s early standard of
finished verse compact of serious if not profound thought. The
title-poem is the best, but is too short to redeem the book from the
charge of mere poetic journalism.”

— =Ath= p594 D ‘16 30w

“Most of the lyrics are brief—some consisting of only a couplet or a
quatrain, and there is considerable evidence of temper which would
have been better modified in more than one instance. There are also
memorable lines and there are flashes of wit. But on the whole it is
not a volume that will add greatly to Mr Watson’s reputation.” N. H.
D.

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 F 10 ‘17 1000w

“With this poem ‘Nature’s way’ and much else in his book that is sound
in thought and brilliant in phrase, Mr Watson will find more
sympathizers than he may realize or even desire—for he seems to enjoy
thinking of himself as a sort of ‘lonely antagonist of destiny,’ a
last survivor of the giants before the flood. It is a pity that this
mood of haughty isolation has grown so strong in his work of late. ...
The man who has successfully challenged Keats in ‘Ode to autumn’ and
Arnold in ‘Wordsworth’s grave’ and Milton himself in ‘Lachrymæ
musarum,’ might well afford to let alone all really ignorant or merely
spiteful criticism of his work.” Odell Shepard

+ — =Dial= 63:18 Je 28 ‘17 700w

“Of late years, Mr William Watson has been making poetry a criticism
of art rather than a criticism of life. Many of the poems in
‘Retrogression’ seem to be versifications of passages in his
‘Pencraft: a plea for the older ways.’ But the versification is deftly
done; it glows now and then with the magic of Wordsworth’s grave’ and
the ‘Ode in May.’”

+ — =Lit D= 54:633 Mr 10 ‘17 300w

“If our own poet’s judgments are correct, surely he need not excite
himself over the faults which give to his own virtues the helpful
emphasis of contrast; there are worse fates than insulation—on a
pinnacle.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Nation= 105:66 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 110w

“All lovers of good poetry, and especially of the finely adjusted word
and phrase, will be delighted with the greater part of Mr William
Watson’s new volume, ‘Retrogression.’ ... The last portion of the
volume, entitled ‘Poems personal and general,’ contain some delightful
verses written to Mr Watson’s own daughter, and some tributes to his
friends. As a whole the volume will attract, in spite of the fact that
none of the poems rises to the heights reached by the poet in previous
years.”

+ — =Spec= 117:772 D 16 ‘16 1150W

“Not always does he attain the aphoristic character of Pope, and not
often the sprightly wit and pungency of Lowell. Moreover, some of the
rhymed epigrams seem inspired by ill-nature, with the malice
ill-concealed. But, on the whole, the book can be recommended for its
bracing effect.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 2 ‘17 550w

“This volume will certainly not add to Mr Watson’s poetic reputation.
He has always been an admirable critic, and has shown more than any
modern of Ben Jonson’s gift of converting literary criticism into
poetry. But he used to have other gifts too. Here there is nothing
else which is poetry and unfortunately a great deal which is scarcely
even verse. ... But in the critical poems he has something to say and
something that needs saying just now.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p570 N 30 ‘16 900w

=WATTS, MARY STANBERY.= Three short plays. *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 812 17-1624

Mrs Watts, well known as a novelist, appears as a dramatist in this
new book. The first, “An ancient dance,” is a two-act play in which a
phonograph is utilized as an instrument of tragedy. In “Civilization,”
the play in one act that follows, the theory that “a man’s a man for
a’ that” is turned inside out and shown to be false according to the
conventions of modern society. “The wearin’ o’ the green,” the third
play, is a farce in two acts in which the appearance of a real plumber
and a real burglar at a fancy dress party produces an amusing
situation.

=A L A Bkl= 13:304 Ap ‘17

“These three plays, by a well-known American novelist, exhibit
versatility and a considerable power of writing good dialogue.”

+ =Ath= p413 Ag ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p37 O ‘17

“The dialogue is well written and the characterization good, but the
plays are rather over-weighted with detail.”

+ =Spec= 118:545 My 12 ‘17 30w

“‘The ancient dance’ depends upon unlikely error. ... ‘Civilization’
seems designed to prove the time-honored theory that society girls can
fall in love with nothing but brass buttons. ... ‘The wearin’ o’ the
green’ is a rather obvious farce depending upon mistaken identity
carried far beyond the bounds of probability.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 280w

=WATTS-DUNTON, WALTER THEODORE.= Poetry and the Renascence of wonder. *$1.75 Button 808.1 16-22776

“‘Poetry and the Renascence of wonder,’ the two famous essays by the
late Theodore Watts-Dunton, are presented as rewritten by the author.
The text is interspersed with ‘riders’ culled from his criticisms on
poetry contributed to the Athenæum, printed in closer text than the
material of the essays. The essay on poetry appeared in the ninth and
subsequent editions of the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica.’ It examines and
explains the principles of poetic art as exemplified by the poetry of
all great literatures. ‘The Renascence of wonder’ is the return to the
primitive, to the ‘childlike wonder of the Iliad and the Odyssey.’” (R
of Rs) The second essay appeared first in the Cyclopædia of English
literature. The book has an introduction by Thomas Hake.

“Not satisfactory as a finished product though full of suggestions to
the earnest student of poetry.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 13:213 F ‘17

“We hoped, when the first volume on our list, ‘Poetry, and the
Renascence of wonder,’ was announced, that the large essay or treatise
on poetics which Watts-Dunton used to speak of as having been sadly
cut down to form the article ‘Poetry’ in the ‘Encyclopaedia
Britannica’ was going to be published at full length. It now appears
that the original essay no longer exists, and that the excised
portions were long ago used up, in our columns and elsewhere. ...
Unfortunately, it has lost instead of gained by expansion into a
book.”

+ — =Ath= p467 O ‘16 1350w

“Includes the two essays by which he is best known as a critic, a body
of historical and critical comment which will long have a distinctive
value.”

+ =Bookm= 45:292 My ‘17 70w

=Ind= 89:458 Mr 12 ‘17 100w

=Nation= 105:293 S 13 ‘17 120w

+ =R of Rs= 54:676 D ‘16 140w

“As no one is likely to read this book who has not a real interest in
literature as a fine art, it will probably irritate all its readers by
its formlessness as well as by the inclusion of such poor stuff as the
essay on ‘Ethical poetry.’ Yet there will be very few of them whose
gratitude will not survive their irritation, especially if they supply
for themselves the index which the editor has neglected to supply.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p463 S 28 ‘16 1750w

=WATTS-DUNTON, WALTER THEODORE.= Vesprie Towers. *$1.35 (2c) Lane 17-7458

An unfailing belief in their “Luck” had been the inheritance of all
the Vespries of Vesprie Towers. It survived in Violet Vesprie, the
last of the line, tho she is impoverished to the point of penury and
finally has to face eviction from her home. She goes to London where
she spends four years in wretchedness, but her pride and her faith
never waver. In London she befriends a young girl in need, finding
later that she is a girl from the neighborhood of her old home. And it
is thru this act of kindness that good fortune comes to her, making
way for a return to Vesprie Towers.

“The value of the novel lies chiefly in its beauty of spirit and in
its evocation of beautiful images.”

+ =Ath= p580 D ‘16 750w

“One of those leisurely, well-ripened Victorian novels that convey
relaxation and a gentle degree of interest to their readers.”

+ =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 150w

“The story does not approach in any form or manner that other novel,
‘Aylwin,’ which made Watts-Dunton’s name known as an author. It is
amateurish by every sign; there is not a character in it that does not
smack of the lay figure, the style is faulty, the dialogue stilted and
dull. Now and then it seems to get really under way; there will be a
passage that stirs you—but immediately the thing falls down again. ...
The book is interesting as some queer old print is interesting, simply
as a relic of the kind of thing that once existed.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:74 Mr 4 ‘17 950w

+ =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 15w

=WAUGH, FRANK ALBERT.= Agricultural college; a study in organization and management and especially in problems of teaching. *$1.10 (3c) Judd 630.7 16-23153

The author, of the Massachusetts agricultural college, treats the
problems of agricultural education from the viewpoint of the teacher.
On controversial points, as he frankly states, he has stressed the
unorthodox point of view. He says, “Education in general is ruled too
much by tradition, and the agricultural colleges, of all academic
institutions, should be free to take the radical course wherever
tradition is called in question. The agricultural college is from the
nature of the case, a radical, not a traditional, institution.”
Contents: Purposes and ideals; College organization; Physical and
financial problems; Organization of instruction; Specialization in
agriculture; Course of study—materials; Course of study—arrangement;
Methods of teaching; Extension teaching; The experiment station;
Special problems and methods.

“Scholarly yet popular in treatment, and accurate. Interesting and
profitable reading, whether or not one agrees with its conclusions.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:299 Ap ‘17

“Suggestive, interestingly written, critical discussion, the first in
the field.”

+ =Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 10w

“Clear and radical. ... It is a book for those who attend faculty
meetings, for fathers with sons who want this kind of vocational
education, and above all for legislators.”

=Ind= 89:557 Mr 26 ‘17 300w

=WAUGH, FRANK ALBERT.= Natural style in landscape gardening. il *$2.50 (9c) Badger, R: G. 710 17-17750

A collection of essays on landscape gardening. In the first essay,
What is meant, the author reviews the controversy that used to be
waged over the merits of the “formal” and the “natural” styles. Modern
practice, he says, has developed an admirable catholicity of taste
that accepts the best of both, and uses the one or the other as best
suits the artist’s purpose. The remaining essays are: The native
landscape; Form and spirit; The landscape motive; Principles of
structural composition; The art of grouping; Features and furnishings;
The open field. The author, who is head of the department of
agriculture at Amherst agricultural college, has recently been
appointed consulting landscape architect of the United States forest
service. Photographs from his camera illustrate the work.

“The book, as well as the style of landscape design which it so
sympathetically explains, should appeal forcefully to the engineer.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:371 F 21 ‘18 200w

=WAUGH, FRANK ALBERT.= Outdoor theaters. il *$2.50 (16c) Badger, R: G. 725.8 17-18366

A book on the design, construction and use of open-air auditoriums.
While the outdoor theater is a new institution in America, there are
thruout the country, as this book will show, a number of notable
examples. Among these are “Bankside,” at the University of North
Dakota, the Greek theater at the University of California, the outdoor
theaters at Vassar and Bryn Mawr, the “Player’s green” in Chicago, the
municipal theater in Anoka, Minnesota, and “Brookside” in Mt. Kisco,
New York. The subject is treated in three parts: Questions of use;
Problems of design; Selected examples. There is a brief foreword by
Percy MacKaye. The book is well illustrated and there is a short
bibliography.

+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:371 F 21 ‘18 80w

Reviewed by M. H. B. Mussey

=Survey= 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 180w

=WAWN, F. T.= Joyful years. *$1.50 (1c) Dutton 17-19508

“The joyful years are those when you are finding yourselves,
children.” So speaks Shaun James, writer, widower, and one of the
leading characters in this rather lengthy novel of English present day
life. Other characters are Cynthia Rosemary Bremner, a normal, happy
girl; her brother Alan; her young cousin Joyce; her older and more
sophisticated cousin Phyllis; Laurence Man, an official of the “Great
company,” in love with Cynthia; and Peter Middleton, meant to be an
artist and trying to be a business man, also in love with Cynthia. The
last eighty pages deal with the characters in wartime, but the story
ends happily for Cynthia and her husband.

“Mr Wawn writes well, and his characters are people of flesh and blood
in whom one can feel an interest. The scene is laid largely near
Tintagel, and the descriptions of that beautiful and romantic country
are well done.”

+ =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w

“Its endless descriptions are touched with a sort of mild eroticism.”
H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:96 S ‘17 380w

“In many ways this is an old-fashioned novel—which is another way of
saying that it is a romantic, leisurely and delightful one. ... The
wholesomeness and sweet reasonableness of the people one meets in the
pages of this book are indeed refreshing. ... A word should be said
also for the delicacy with which the author has written of love and
marriage. The very soul of purity breathes in his pages.”

+ + =Cath World= 105:839 S ‘17 350w

“‘The joyful years’ is best described as a first-rate second-rate
novel. It is one of those stories of solid worth which only the
English writers seem able to produce. On every page there is evidence
of the trained thinker and writer who has observed life. ... A good
story well told.”

+ =Dial= 63:117 Ag 16 ‘17 290w

“A mental revel in feminine pulchritude.”

— =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 40w

“A tale rather hopelessly old-fashioned, since it records no more
unconventional a sex-adventure than is involved in a runaway
marriage. ... The story is ‘well-written’ in a way, but unduly drawn
out, and marred by a kind of spinsterly voluptuousness which insists
on our habitual assistance at the heroine’s toilet.”

– + =Nation= 105:178 Ag 16 ‘17 380w

“‘The joyful years’ falls short of being a good novel because of the
saccharine sweetness of its love affair, because of the tawdry
cheapness of its central philosophy, and because the author
deliberately chooses the wrong side of great public questions. ... The
one character of interest is Phyllis. She is real—she lives; her
shallowness and flippancy are exquisitely drawn.” D. P. Berenberg

– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 450w

“The novel contains some interesting pictures of the war, as Peter saw
it from the trenches, and as Cynthia saw it from the point of view of
the women who had to stay at home and wait.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 550w

“The pictures of the hero in the trenches are well drawn.”

+ =Spec= 118:677 Je 16 ‘17 40w

=WEALE, BERTRAM LENOX PUTNAM, pseud. (BERTRAM LENOX SIMPSON).= Fight for the republic in China. il *$3.50 (4c) Dodd 951 17-31438

This book covers the years 1911 to 1917. A general introduction
sketches events leading up to this period. To include everything which
the student or the casual reader needs to know about the Chinese
question is the author’s aim. He calls attention particularly to the
inclusion of certain Chinese and Japanese documents which “afford a
sharp contrast between varying types of eastern brains.” The
appendixes give “every document of importance for the period covered.”

“It would be difficult to overestimate the service this book must
render to the study of the more important aspects of Far Eastern
questions. It must have a place in every library furnished with the
best available materials for the intelligent consideration of China
and Chinese problems in their relation to the social advance of the
modern world.” L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:267 N ‘17 250w

“An anti-Japanese bias is often markedly pronounced.”

+ — =Ind= 93:200 F 2 ‘18 600w

“It is not only an important addition to our positive knowledge but a
valuable contribution to political literature. It is of unique
interest in that the case for the republic developed in the narrative
is supported by official and semi-official documentary evidence. His
sober analysis of the factor of Japan should be read by every
intelligent citizen.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:13 Ja 13 ‘18 500w

“For the reader the work presents all the fascination of the drama,
for, rapidly as events have moved of late in the Occident, they have
moved even more swiftly in the Orient.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ‘17 720w

=WEAVER, ERASMUS MORGAN.= Notes on military explosives. 4th ed rev and enl il *$3.25 Wiley 662 17-11354

“The book shows the leading developments wrought by the present
war—particularly the employment of atmospheric nitrogen and the
substitution of wood pulp for cotton. The text opens with some
elementary notes on chemistry and descriptions of substances entering
explosives. Then the characteristics and requirements of propelling,
disrupting and detonating compounds are presented. There are chapters
on tests, storage, handling and use for special demolitions. An
appendix contains (1) laboratory experiments to illustrate the section
on chemistry, (2) a paper by A. S. Cushman on ‘The role of chemistry
in war,’ and (3) the Interstate commerce commission regulations
governing the transportation of explosives as freight.” (Engin
News-Rec) “The author, a major general in the U.S. army, is chief of
coast artillery.” (St Louis)

+ =Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 50w

“This book will be interesting to all who desire to serve their
country as military engineers at the ‘front’ or to make the explosives
that the needs of the front demand.”

+ =Coal Age= 11:888 My 19 ‘17 1000w

“General Weaver’s treatise on military explosives has long been one of
the most important books in the engineer’s military library, but the
past four years have made the previous edition inadequate in regard to
use, so that the present edition is welcome.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:360 My 17 ‘17 150w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p16 Ap ‘17 130w

=St Louis= 15:366 O ‘17 10w

=WEAVER, HENRIETTA.= Flame and the shadow-eater. *$1.40 (2c) Holt 17-14135

A book of short stories in which the author’s aim has been to present
certain phases of eastern mysticism in the form of fiction. The
stories bear such titles as The seller of dreams, The wonder-bubble of
the world, Mirage in the desert, Dust in the wind, and The
night-comer, and are written in a manner that is imitative of the
oriental story teller.

“Told with all the richness of imagery and measured cadence of the
oriental tale.”

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 40w

=Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 150w